Introduction
Cow's ear is a capsule chicory, leaf basal, broadly elliptic to suborbicular, 3-5 cm long, 2.5-4 cm wide, apex obtuse, base broadly cuneate, the edge of the irregular obtuse crenate, the upper side of the green, green velutinous, lower side of the light color, brown velutinous, veins protruding. Flowering stem ca. 10 cm, covered with brown woolly hairs, several small flowers, cymose arrangement; flower stalk ca. 8 mm, densely covered with woolly hairs; sepals 5, united at the base, lobes lanceolate, covered with hairs, ca. 2 mm; corolla 2-lipped, lobes 5, reddish, 7-10 mm; developing stamens 2; ovary sessile, linear, composed of 2 carpels, stigma small. Capsule abaxially dehiscent, lobes twisted, flowering in spring and summer.
Efficacy
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In the "compilation of national herbal medicine", the cow's ear grass can enter the lung meridian, can be treated to dissipate blood stasis, bleeding, clearing away heat, detoxification, swelling, phlegm, cough, anti-bacterial expectorant and other efficacy, used in traumatic bleeding, bruises, intestinal infections, otitis media, coughing, phlegm, vomiting blood, blood in stools, ear, and so on. Symptoms. The use of cow's ear herb has internal and external use of two kinds, when used as a herbal medicine is usually the whole plant into the medicine, its picking time is all year round, but also said that the spring and summer can be picked.
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The cow's ear grass in the "Yunnan Materia Medica" is known as the stone gall grass, usually used to pound the sores. In the "botanical names and facts" is known as the soul of the grass, the main treatment of bruises, usually with the fresh ox-ear grass pounded in the affected area, or the dried ox-ear grass ground into powder sprinkled on the affected area. It can also be decocted with water to treat cough and phlegm. In the book "Quanzhan Xuanbian" (全展选編? Infectious Diseases", cow's ear grass is known as butterfly grass, can cure enteritis, is the cow's ear grass after washing, add 500 milliliters of water, boil for 5 to 10 minutes, put the temperature to wash the feet. Among them, children five to ten plants, adults each time is to use 10 to 15 plants, once a day, even wash two to three days (this liquid can be used after the use of warming and then wash, wash without side effects). Cow's ear herb can also be used to treat otitis media, that is, fresh cow's ear herb is pounded, and the juice is taken out and dripped inside the ear. The use of cow's ear grass can also be powdered and taken, 3g each time, or soaked in wine to drink.
Morphological characteristics of cow's ear grass
Cat's ear is also known as rotary capsule chicory. Perennial herb, 7-14cm high, leaves are basal, rosulate; leaves sessile; leaf blade thick, subleathery; round-ovate, ovate or suborbicular, 2-7cm long, 1.5-7.5cm wide, apex obtuse-rounded, base slightly narrowed into a cuneate, margin toothed or undulate, covered with appressed white villous hairs on top, white or light brown tomentose hairs on the underside, veins especially dense. Scapes 1-2, 7-14 cm tall, densely pubescent; cymes 2-10-flowered; peduncles 10-18 cm long, pubescent and glandular pilose; bracts 2, ovate, ca. 11 mm; calyx campanulate, 5-parted, lobes triangular, subequal; corolla white or reddish, campanulate-tubular, 1-1.5 cm long, outside sparsely pubescent, limb 2-lipped, upper lip 2-lobed, lobes long and rounded, lower lip 3-lobed, wider and longer than the upper lip. rounded, lower lip 3-lobed, broadly ovate or ovate; stamens 2, included, filaments flattened, anthers coherent, staminodes 3, tiny; ovary ovate-oblong, pubescent, style projecting from corolla, stigma capitate. Capsule oblong, 3-4 cm long, outside pubescent, spirally curled. Seeds ovoid. Flowering in June-July, fruiting in July-October.
Information about Cow's Ear Grass
Alias
Flip Soul Grass, Iron Harrier, Stone Flower Seed, Eight Treasure Tea, Cat's Claw Seven, Vegetable Butterfly, Cat's Ear Grass, Cow's Tongue, Smaller Viridiflora, Four-Petal Grass, Ground Tiger Skin, Ground Poultice, Soul Returning Grass.
Medicinal Part
Whole herb.
Taste and odor
Bitter taste, flat nature.
Attributes to the lung meridian.
Effects
Dispersing blood stasis and stopping bleeding, clearing heat and removing toxins, resolving phlegm and relieving cough.
Indications
It is used for spitting blood, blood in stool, bleeding from trauma, bruises and injuries, mites, cough and phlegm.
Related compositions
Treatment of otitis media ear pain: fresh cow's ear grass appropriate amount, pounding juice, ear drops. (Shanxi Herbal Medicine)
Dosage
Internal: decoction, 9-15g; powdered, 3g each time; or soaked in wine. External use: appropriate amount, powdered sprinkle; or fresh pounded compress.
Concoctions
I. Collection and processing
All year round can be harvested, fresh or sun-dried.
II. Concoction Method
Take the original herbs, remove impurities, wash with water, slightly moist, cut into pieces. Dry, sieve off the ash.
Growth and development
Born in the mountain slopes, valleys and ravines at an altitude of 200-1320cm, under the forest on the rocks. It is distributed in Hebei, Shaanxi, Gansu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan.
Beverage properties
It is a mixed segment of scape, peduncle and leaf. Leaf blade thick, subleathery, apex obtuse-rounded, base slightly narrowed into cuneate, margin dentate or undulate, appressed white villous above, white or light brown tomentose below. Peduncle pubescent and glandular pilose. Scape densely pubescent.
Pharmacological Actions
Expectorant and antibacterial.
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